Wednesday, September 16, 2009

NEW PANDEMIC THREAT


Time wasting:
Computer gaming addiction is reaching “pandemic” proportions around the world, according to a Swedish organization poised to take a leading role in helping young people cope with the problem.

“This is a huge hidden problem in a lot of countries and it doesn’t get the same kind of attention because it takes place largely behind closed doors rather than out in public,” Sven Rollenhagen of the Youth Care Foundation (Stiftelsen Ungdomsvård) told The Local.
There is an alternative: get a job.

30 Comments:

Anonymous Damian Lataan said...

I don't suppose it would have occurred to you Beck, that the reason they're playing computer games is because there is no job to be had.

6:58 AM  
Anonymous Jimmy said...

Unlike the imaginary job you possess Lataan ...

7:16 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oh snap.

7:40 AM  
Anonymous Damian Lataan said...

Isn't all this just a computer game?

9:35 AM  
Anonymous Damian Lataan said...

Jimmy Boy, nobody cares what you believe.

9:55 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Except for you, of course. Otherwise why respond? LC

10:04 AM  
Anonymous Damian Lataan said...

I don't care; I respond to ensure that Jimmy Boy gets the message.

10:44 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

In which case you do care. I've seen jellyfish with more self awareness. LC

10:57 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

jellyfish have a function. Also they don't draw student benefits

11:01 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

land of Kalimdor LOL

11:21 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Btw, I hope noone minds the off topic nature of my comment. Seeing that Damo has decided to make this thread all about him again, we might as well have some fun at his expense.

11:44 AM  
Anonymous Damian Lataan said...

Gee, I get a mention in just about every post.

12:46 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Lataan, we are laughing at you not with you, now sod off back to where ever it is you came from.

1:32 PM  
Anonymous Toaf said...

JF, you seem to be linking computer game addiction and unemployment. Is that what the study says? I must have missed that part of the article. As far as I know, people with jobs can also play computer games. Others blog.

2:02 PM  
Anonymous Toaf said...

Clown, it says that people use their time to play games rather than advance their careers. That doesn't mean they don't have jobs. As I said, there is no mention of unemployment at all. If I have missed something perhaps you can point it out.

2:18 PM  
Anonymous Damo the clown said...

That's an interesting blog you have Toaf

2:52 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

There's too many damiens on this thread and I forget how to spell them all, but Damien (Toaf), that's my reading of the article too. LC

3:04 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

No post since Friday and this is Beck's next effort. Still I guess it's a slight improvement on his usual self-gratification over Sear, Bridges and Loewenstein.

3:57 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Peculiarly means exclusively, you bufoon! And it comes, as said above, from ABC comedy shows of the ealr 90s - d-gen, I think. LC

4:09 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Dwamos a Shoe Horn Engineer

4:53 PM  
Anonymous Damian Lataan said...

Well, at least you took time out to check over my blog. I can't help you though if you're too thick to make any sense of it. You're better off sticking with the dumb gullible here if you find stories about expensive shoe-horns impressive.

4:55 PM  
Anonymous Damian Lataan said...

Gee, even more stuff about me!

6:36 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

On a thread that you've made all about you. You do have some issues, don't you? LC

6:58 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anon at 9:24, yes because your left wing mate's constant "twat" remarks are so much better, aren't they? But do carryon... Lattecat

9:49 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

You consider 'Lattetwat' an insult? What, did you just log on to the internet 5 minutes ago?

10:43 AM  
Anonymous Damian Lataan said...

Thank you 10.37am. Our posts must crossed. You took the words right out of my mouth.

10:47 AM  
Anonymous Jimmy said...

"My goodness now Lataan answers his own posts."

Like most things he does in life, not very well. What on earth does this mean?

"Our posts must crossed."

10:57 AM  
Anonymous Damian Lataan said...

Oh, well spotted Jimmy Boy!!

Of course, I meant to write 'our posts must have crossed', but you've caught me out Jimmy Boy! What a hero! You've left me utterly humiliated! How can I ever show my face on the blogosphere again?!!

Twat.

11:02 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anon at 11:27, that was great. LC

12:44 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Damian, you are currently at step 7!

1:57 PM  

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